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SBS Drama exec returns to ABC
An SBS Drama executive is heading back to the ABC.
Carole Sklan, who commissioned two seasons of East West 101, plus Carla Cametti PD and the upcoming second season of Wilfred for SBS, has re-joined ABC TV as a Commissioning Editor for Drama.
Sklan worked at SBS for three and a half years where she was commissioning editor on the telemovie Saved, the animated feature Mary and Max, the five minute comedy interstitial series Marx and Venus, and the indigenous short series, Bit of Black Business.
Amanda Higgs, Acting Head of ABC TV Drama …
AWGIE Awards: 2009 Nominees
The Australian Writers’ Guild has announced the nominees for the 42nd annual AWGIE Awards.
Contenders in the drama series category include Rush, Satisfaction and Carla Cametti PD, while the serials will be fought between Home and Away, Neighbours and Out of the Blue. Saved and Scorched go head to head for the telemovie award while the miniseries nominees are East West 101, The Circuit and False Witness.
Titles competing in comedy include Newstopia, Good News Week and Review with Myles Barlow. ABC kid’s series Zigby has landed all 5 nominations in the P …
Libby to Nine’s Rescue
Last week Nine confirmed its casting for its newest drama, RESCUE Special Ops (yep more titles with CAPS!).
To be produced by Julie McGauran (Out Of The Blue, Home and Away) and Sarah Smith (The Alice) the 13 part series will feature Les Hill (Underbelly), Libby Tanner (Scorched), Peter Phelps (Underbelly: A Tale Of Two Cities), Daniel Amalm (Two Fists, One Heart), Gigi Edgley( The Starter Wife), Katherine Hicks (Out Of The Blue) and newcomer Andrew Lees.
Playing brothers Dean Gallagher and Chase are Les Hill and Andrew Lees: competitive alpha males, who …
Aussie dramas compete in Monte Carlo
Two recent Australian dramas have landed nominations in the prestigious Monte Carlo TV Festival.
SBS’ Carla Cametti PD and Showtime’s Satisfaction will have to compete in awards against the likes of shows including The Tudors. The U.S. nominees for Drama are Mad Men, Boston Legal and Lost and for Comedy are 30 Rock, The Office and Entourage.
Nominees include:
Outstanding International Producer:
Carla Cametti PD
Satisfaction
Actor:
Vince Colosimo, Sullivan Stapleton, Carla Cametti PD
Dustin Clare, Sullivan Stapleton, Satisfaction
Actress:
Diana Glenn, Nicole da Silva, Carla Cametti PD
Madeleine West, Kestie Morassi, Satisfaction
The festival takes place in June.
Source: Monte Carlo TV …
SBS claims ratings on the rise
Better late than never perhaps, but SBS has now released details of its 2008 performance and says it achieved its “best ever primetime share of people 16+ – 6.2 per cent, a modest increase from 6 per cent in 2007.”
The broadcaster cites an increase of 22 per cent in viewership in the last five years.
“This demonstrates that audiences are appreciating SBS’s commitment to and increased investment in quality Australian programming,” Managing Director Shaun Brown said.
“While audience figures are only one measure of success, the fact that SBS’s audience share has …
Gallery: Making Carla Cametti, PD.
Locally made SBS series Carla Cametti, P.D is winning a following, with viewers drawn towards its “girl’s own crime stories” and a heavy European flavour in its production.
Diana Glenn continues to impress as a strong lead actress, including through her work in Satisfaction and Canal Road.
As you know, TV Tonight loves to take you behind the scenes of local productions, helping to deconstruct the making of television. Most of the time this is through direct set visits.
But in the case of the SBS drama, the network has actually done it themselves. …
Carla Cametti, PD.
Quality local dramas on SBS have underlined the importance of the role of public broadcasters. Watching East West 101, The Circuit or RAN: Remote Area Nurse is like switching on an arthouse channel. East West 101 was even made by the same producers who ambitiously made The Strip, a stark difference between creative independence via a public broadcaster versus the demands of a controlling commercial network.
Carla Cametti P.D., stars Diana Glenn (Satisfaction, Canal Road) as a private detective in an Italian clan from inner Melbourne. Her family is entrenched in crime, …
Airdate: Carla Cametti, PD.
You’ll see lots of familiar faces when SBS’ newest local drama, Carla Cametti, P.D., premieres next month.
The six part series built around a private detective in a family of Italians fuses actors from Underbelly, Satisfaction, Canal Road and Rush.
In the title role is Diana Glenn, while Vince Colosimo, Robert Mammone, Sullivan Stapleton and Nicole Da Silva also appear.
SBS has opted to premiere the season when most viewing on offer is repeats, but it also risks doing so when we are distracted by summer holidaying. It premieres Thursday January 8 at 8.30pm …
Carla Cametti PD tops SBS summer
The summer schedules keep coming. SBS has Carla Cametti PD, new Top Gear (UK), Inspector Rex, Food Safari, Iron Chef, Tour Down Under and Dakkar Rally.
Carla Cametti PD features Diana Glenn (Satisfaction) as a cop from a family riddled with gangsters. Ironically, Vince Colosimo this time plays a detective seconded to curb Melbourne’s burgeoning gangland activity.
While some of the shows were already flagged for summer by SBS some weeks ago, we now have definitive times.
There’s another motorcycling series by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman, Long Way Down, a Muslim comedy …
Aussies headed for MIPCOM
Actors Diana Glenn and Tony Poli will promote Carla Cametti PD, SBS’ new crime drama series at MIPCOM in Cannes next week.
Australian TV executives are all heading to what is the premier event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content. Over 13,000 entertainment professionals from over 100 countries will gather in France from October 13th – 17th.
If they’re really lucky or know how to schmooze, Glenn and Poli could get to rub shoulders with Jude Law, Adrian Grenier, Neve Campbell, Stephen Campbell Moore, and Jane Seymour who all have …
Vince out for Underbelly 2
No surprises here, Vince Colosimo is the latest Underbelly actor to rule himself out of the sequel, being prepared by Screentime for the Nine Network.
He told Moviehole his part won’t factor into the storyline of the next series.
“The next instalment is ’75 to ’85,” he said. “Then, next year, they might do ’85 to ’95 – and the character I play will come into it again. So I’m not in this next one, but if they get the all clear to do it, I’ll be in the next one”.
A large …
Colosimo first guest on Top Gear Australia
Vince Colosimo will be Top Gear Australia’s first studio guest, Monday week. In a cross-promotion for SBS’ upcoming drama Carla Cametti P.D., the rest of Colosimo’s details are being kept under wraps.
Colismo is expected to appear as the “Star in a Reasonably Priced Car” segment that has become an institution in the UK version.
The Stig who is also confirmed to be a regular, but nobody is saying if it’s the “same” Stig as the UK.
SBS is playing its cards close to its chest with Top Gear -no previews are available to media prior …